Example sentences of "but in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said it could never happen , but in an act many will regard as nothing short of vandalism , an outdoor centre has negotiated privately with the owners of Brock Holes quarry in the Peak to place up to 50 bolts to secure a rope handrail across the rock . |
| 2 | It is a lazy movement but in an instant it is gone . |
| 3 | Mrs Chamorro declined to give interviews while in Washington but in an article published this week , she wrote : ‘ Ten years of living dangerously has brought civil war , an exodus of a fifth of our countrymen , an annual inflation of 30,000 per cent , 40 per cent unemployment and for the first time in our history , mass hunger . |
| 4 | But in an earlier case , he said , it had been held that the authority of the stewards of the National Greyhound Racing Club to suspend a trainer 's licence was derived solely from a contract between him and the club and that the stewards were purely a domestic tribunal . |
| 5 | He was not the chief executive of a big corporation but in an uneasy no man 's land between the department and the service . |
| 6 | However , their memories do not work in a logical way like ours , but in an emotional fashion and by association . |
| 7 | But in an election the facts speak for themselves ; if you do not get the right message across to the right people , you lose . |
| 8 | It was given expression not only in the letter by Elder and the Declaration by Henry VIII , but in an intensive burst of propaganda in 1547–8 . |
| 9 | The main , and best , façade , the one seen from Via Torino from where the church entrance is reached , was started by an earlier architect , but in an assumed battle between the early man and Bramante the latter won the day , completing the work seen today . |
| 10 | The date over the door is 1708 and a fire place is dated 1758 , but in an early Parish Register someone from Dubber Beck was buried in 1632 . |
| 11 | If you do identify important problems , discuss them with your spouse as soon as possible — not in anger but in an atmosphere of openness and goodwill . |
| 12 | No doubt disposals of that kind will continue over the years , but in an organised way . |
| 13 | A typical basalt contains a few per cent of phenocryst minerals , but in an andesite phenocrysts may form as much as 50 per cent volume of the rock . |
| 14 | But in an emergency or disaster situation , the knowledge base must be in the computer system and there should be no skill barrier to access the system . |
| 15 | An influential voice in the debate was that of Georg Kerschensteiner , Director of Education in Munich , ‘ the Mecca of all school reformers ’ , who was famous for his opposition to ‘ general ’ continued courses , preferring instead the ‘ vocational ’ but in an integrated curriculum designed to train young workers as citizens . |
| 16 | But in an important respect , ( the one this article is about ) , helices are not at all classical . |
| 17 | Plutonium still in AGR and Magnox reactor fuel was estimated to total 8–5 tonnes ; discharged but not yet reprocessed plutonium amounted to 3–5 tonnes ; while plutonium awaiting processing , but in an intermediate form , came to just half a tonne , the same amount as had been exported for civil purposes . |
| 18 | But in an affluent society the problem of poverty is fundamentally different from what it is in an underdeveloped economy . |
| 19 | The children remained preoccupied by their loss and would continue to cry from time to time , but in an increasingly hopeless and dejected way . |
| 20 | ‘ In the past no one individual has had responsibility for training , but in an effort to formalise and develop staff training a working party has just been set up ( to be chaired by the Branch Development Officer ) to organise and develop staff training at all levels ’ . |
| 21 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 22 | But in an election that , as Vernon Bogdanor wrote in the Independent on Sunday , ‘ enables the elector to give expression to those hopes and fears no opinion poll can be sensitive enough to register and reflects the way the nation perceives itself ’ , he embodied exactly those things that the constituency that Labour was trying to woo back — the new working class — is trying its damnedest to escape from . |
| 23 | The reader feels entertained , but in an excluded sort of way , rather as though he or she were the butler at a particularly lively dessert at Lincoln 's Inn . |
| 24 | Upper-class types who ca n't cope are thinner on the ground than they were , but in an exalted sort of way William Waldegrave is one of them . |
| 25 | Helping his government and his country was one thing , but in an internal accounting inquiry that would not show up . |
| 26 | This mixing increases the tail rotor pitch to compensate for the increased torque when collective pitch is added , but in an autorotation landing there is no torque at all so the yaw effect is even more pronounced . |
| 27 | But in an attempt to dilute a revolt , Taylor has cancelled plans for a fourth match against Canada . |
| 28 | Ltd. , and the laying of underground conduits and cables for the power supply to British Insulated and Helsby Cables Ltd. , but in an agreement dated 25 September , it was arranged that the B.E.T . |
| 29 | They were a delight for the charterers in the Bahamian lagoons , but in an Atlantic storm such wide windows could be our death warrants for if Wavebreaker fell off a big wave the glass could be driven out of the windows and the boat be filling with water in seconds , and so I cut and shaped sheet steel shutters that could be bolted over the boat 's glass at the first sign of bad weather . |
| 30 | She did not discover a numinous cloud of ignorance or an impenetrable darkness between herself and God ; her apprehension of the divine did not end in silence , but in an eloquent message for her contemporaries . |